Here are the new releases from Crossroad Press for June, July, and August 2025. Unless noted otherwise, you can purchase any of them at Amazon, B&N, Apple, Google Play, Smashwords, or Kobo.
(Release date – 6/12/2025)
Featuring cover art by Dan Brereton
There’s nothing quite like a circus. The Carnivale de Fantastique is an acrobatic and musical phenomenon, a show based on the legends of a circus that vanished mysteriously half a century ago. Every season the numbers grow, the merchandising expands and the ticket sales explode.
This year things are a little different. This year the star of the show was murdered and shipped to the next city in a cardboard box. This year the acts are running into all sorts of troubles, and even the police and the F.B.I. are trying to figure out what’s causing all the troubles.
Once upon a time there was a kid named Cecil. He ran away, joined the circus and then got murdered for his troubles. Fifty years later, he clawed his way out of Hell, found the people who killed him and his circus and had his bloody revenge. Since then he’s been trying to find something to do with his time and now he’s heard about the Carnivale de Fantastique, a show based on the disappearance of the circus he traveled with. Of course it’s not a traditional circus. This one has acrobats and dancers and actors and a story.
It’s only missing one thing and it’s just not funny.
When in doubt, send in the clowns.
(Release date – 6/8/2025)
Featuring cover art by Zach McCain
There is no peace in death. Some people know that better than others. In Carson’s Point, Colorado the dead do not rest, but rise every night and try to kill whatever crosses their path. Those dead are merely the symptom of something far worse, something ancient and evil that does not care for the Europeans taking the lands, or for those who lived there before. The living do not matter, the dead are tools, the possible spawn of the pale, white thing lurking in the woods are all that is important to that dreadful force. It will kill anything that gets in its path and make living and the deceased suffer for their transgressions.
Carson’s Point is on a course that leads straight to Hell, unless something comes along that can fight back against the unnatural servants of the thing that wants the boomtown destroyed.
The wizard, Albert Miles, is in town for reasons all his own, escaping the latest terrors he’s spread across the land. He might well be able to save the town, but if he does he’ll exact a terrible price.
The new sheriff has his work cut out for him. There are savages waiting outside the town, dead things crawling from the grave, bad men set on taking what they want and fools aplenty trying to survive the disasters coming their way until they can once again go hunting for the dreams they hope will change their lives.
Jonathan Crowley could very well be the salvation that the town needs, but he has no desire to help anyone living there and has settled himself on one mission and one mission only: revenge against the soldiers that left him for dead.
The Hunter has quit and no longer wants anything to do with justice for humans or stopping the evil things that feast on humanity’s sorrows. Evil grows throughout the town, mortal evil and things far worse. And when the sun sets, that evil takes root and spreads like wildfire.
(Release date – 6/8/2025)
Featuring cover art by Dan Brereton
Jonathan Crowley is having a bad time of it.
He’s too busy for anyone’s good, dealing with calls from beyond the grave, demons that refuse to stay dead, the very creature that murdered his wife and children, and a few spirits that have unfinished business with the Hunter.
The past comes back to haunt the man who gives monsters their nightmares in a series of encounters that deal with Crowley’s past losses and even his occasional victories, but any way you look at it, Jonathan Crowley is having One Bad Week.
Now the question is who will survive to talk about it later?
(Release date – 6/10/2025)
Featuring cover art by Zach McCain
They survived the nightmare at Carson’s Point, but Jonathan Crowley, the Hunter, and his new associate, Lucas Slate have only just begun their trek through the weird, wild west.
All Crowley wants is to retire and catalog the creatures he’s never before encountered in the Americas. All Lucas Slate wants is to understand what is happening to his body and mind, and why there is an endlessly changing song echoing through his head that will not leave him in peace. Dark Gods, Ghosts, Werewolves and Spectral Trains are a few of the obstacles between what they want and what they get.
Collected for the first time, the stories “Black Train Blues,” “The Devoted,” “Blank, White Page (Songs In The Key of White,” and “What Rough Beast” (co-authored by Charles R. Rutledge) continue the story started in BOOMTOWN. An additional never before published short story, “Where Did We Go Wrong,” finishes this collection of tales.
Jonathan Crowley is new to the Americas and heading Where the Sun Goes To Die while he examines a land full of mysteries and nightmares. Won’t you join him?